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- Comment on How do I drink more water? 1 day ago:
I can find sources but for one thing, aspartame has been looked at for years as a carcinogen, 4-MEI (caramel coloring) is also a carcinogen, articles like this one point to sucralose being quite bad for you in many different ways.
If your sugar free soda contains caffeine then it can actually contribute to hydration loss, this is because caffeine is a dieuretic (something that increases urine production and removes extra salt and water from the body).
Plus the simple logic is: sugar free soda cannot be almost identical to plain water because of the sheer amount of additives. You will always be better off health-wise drinking clean water.
- Comment on How do I drink more water? 1 day ago:
I think if you look at in isolation, sure, much like beer in a survival situation. Sugar free soda is still linked with things like higher blood pressure, diabetes — which, to me, sounds like you’re just better off drinking water.
- Comment on Future 2 days ago:
The suggestions that are being used as placeholders for numbers.
- Comment on How do I drink more water? 2 days ago:
One thing to consider is that your relationship with taste might need to be re-examined.
Human beings can go most places in the world and find food. Taste is a big part of our ability to do so as a species, sure, but the fact remains that being able to eat/drink solely to satiate your desires (rather than survival) is actually an abnormality if we compare it to the rest of human history. In a sense, it is a privilege to simply be able to say ‘no’ no to something strictly based on the flavor.
Try to guage it based on how you feel rather than how it tastes. You should be able to feel the difference between how a day with only water feels vs a day without water (I’m not including beer or soda here, yes it can keep you hydrated no it is not a solution to hydration unless you’re trapped in adesert).
- Comment on Anon sacrifices for the family 2 days ago:
I can’t tell if this is a joke
- Comment on Innovation 3 days ago:
A lot of techbros are convinced having a watch on makes people take you more seriously.
- Comment on Astronauts are funny 1 week ago:
Look at these DEI hires making history. How dare they ruin the narrative.
- Comment on Open Carry Loophole 1 week ago:
I think that’s a bit different from setting up a drone to bring you a gun, personally.
- Comment on Open Carry Loophole 1 week ago:
Still falls under your control in that instance, unless you’ve got someone else summoning it for you (we don’t need to talk about how, just assume it’s a drone and not magic) at which point we’re talking about a conspiracy.
- Comment on Miss me 1 week ago:
Gambling is like alcohol, some is fun but you need to learn your limits.
If you go into gambling thinking ‘I’m gonna make 100 dollars!’ your gambling wrong. If you go into gambling thinking ‘I’m gonna spend 100 dollars.’ you’re gambling correctly.
- Comment on “It was because my bed is facing the bedroom door” 1 week ago:
Gotcha, so your point is not that meditation is woowoo; your point is that expecting meditation to connect you to the spirit realm is woowoo.
Just so we’re clear, this is called transcendental meditation and I’m pretty sure it was created and started by an Indian man in India.
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
My feelings on the Last of Us are complicated. Last of Us in isolation is good, TLoU and TLoU2 together are bad. Way better story than Crimson Desert’s, though.
Mass Effect… I’m sorry but everything past 1 was bad, and 1’s story was good because of the expectations set up for future games. Like, Shephard is a nothing character the same way that Kliff is — only there’s an actual narrative driven by him and the rest of the cast.
We’ve discussed Zelda and Dark Souls, but I think Valheim is actually a point against what you’re saying — yes you’re reacting to the world but Valheim has next to no story (I’d say no story but I haven’t played it in a while).
Kliff could have been anyone. You could replace Kliff as the main character with Damiane and the story literally wouldn’t change (only you can’t because the Abyss can only be accessed by Kliff).
Only for >!this to mean absolutely fucking nothing because apparently Oongka goes where he pleases.!<
I think the world is beautiful and you could subtract the entire beginning of the story and filled with only quests and side stuff in the world — it would have been a better experience. Simply deleting the dogshit Yann and Naira quests would make it a better experience. If a game’s story would be strictly better with half of it deleted, I’m sorry but the story is just bad.
- Comment on “It was because my bed is facing the bedroom door” 1 week ago:
Are you suggesting meditation is ‘woowoo’?
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
Legend of Zelda, believe it or not, does not have a good story.
Great games, love me some LoZ — stories are consistently weak across all entries. Robust lore, poor individual narratives— see Dark Souls if you want another example.
That all being said: the game (Crimson Desert) very strictly establishes rules regarding the Abyss. Kliff is the only one who’s allowed to go up there — because reasons! He’s the hero!
I spoil something here so be warned - >! Yeah the game is very strict about letting anything but Kliff up until the Abyss throughout the entire game. You’d think there’d be some overarching reason for it, right? No, Oongka practically instant transmissions to save you at the end of the game. No explanation for why he’s there, no explanation for why he couldn’t go there before — nope he just pops in and saves you from… it’s still not clear. !<
Like I’ve beaten the game. The bit I mentioned up above literally made me burst out laughing. If it weren’t for how cool and alternative the unarmed system is, I’d have put the game down right then out of boredom.
Bottom line: you’re allowed to like whatever you want, but Crimson Desert would have been a better experience with a custom character. I mean for fucks sake, Kliff literally has a canned goofy ass ‘Yes’ response for random NPC dialogue — it literally would have been better if they just made him not speak.
- Comment on the simulation jumped the shark with the is Trump guy 1 week ago:
Oh, hey — I’ve gone through this since his first term.
Yeah I asked my Trump loving office trog what he thinks about all the stuff Trump, Hegseth and the other sycophants say. His response boiled down to ‘I don’t pay attention to everything they say or do.’
The average Trump voter will not be described as discerning in the history books. It’s a shame they’ve been allowed to be the loudest Americans.
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
Again, that’s largely my point. You can’t market a game and just sell 5 million units. Marathon sold 1.2 million units because a) it’s a Bungie game so people would be paying attention to it and b) it had heavy marketing behind it. It would’ve sold even less without those two things, but that’s besides the point. The idea that you can just sell 5 million units through marketing is simply not true and Marathon proves it.
Let’s put this into perspective here.
Pearl Abyss is a relatively unknown dev, Black Desert is not an unknown IP. Pearl Abyss has been pushing BDO for years, roping in larger streamers to play their game over time. BDO is a game that does not respect your time however, and player retention is pretty low as a result. Actually, the BDO community itself is known for helping newbies through some awful grinds — mainly because they recognize that most newbies simply won’t withstand it. This has created a pretty committed community towards the game, and Pearl Abyss hasn’t been actively shitting on them. I can’t think of a better word of mouth machine, especially one already entrenched in social media platforms like Twitch.
Meanwhile, Bungie has spent the better part of the last 5 years making it clear to anyone with a brain that Destiny 2 is simply a cash cow for developing other IPs. Bungies content creator network has seemed like paid actors for years, I know because I played Destiny 2. If Pearl Abyss has been generating their community, Bungie has been actively destroying theirs.
Bottom line, Pearl Abyss has set themselves up for people to give them a chance and the recent success of Crimson Desert is the culmination of years planting seeds. Meanwhile Bungie has been resting on their laurels, actively destroying their community, creating people like me who will simply never purchase a Bungie IP again — and the game still sold over 1.2 million copies.
If anything, Marathon’s success is a testament to the power of marketing pushes.
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
I want you to tell me a singular storypoint that requires Kliff to be Kliff.
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
And my point is that if you asked your normie gamer, which really didn’t exist in the same form, in 2005 who Bungie is — you’d mostly get question marks.
The comparison to Marathon was explicitly to debunk the idea that you can sell 5 million units simply by doing marketing.
This would be relevant except that Marathon only sold as well as it did because of the heavy marketing push. If you’ve been following what Bungie has done with Destiny 2 then you should know it’s fucking amazing anyone bought into that soulless trash. They have burned so many bridges with their community. Had they released Marathon before Bungie was sold to Sony it would undoubtedly have sold better.
- Comment on The 22 Richest Men in the World Have More Wealth than All the Women in Africa 1 week ago:
Are women in Africa particularly rich as to be used for comparison? Or is this just weird engagement bait?
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
Yet if you’d said Elite Dangerous it would be much more recognizeable, just like BDO is with Pearl Abyss.
Plus, Pearl Abyss has been working to get people to play their game for quite some time — Shroud played it for a bit and I know some other popular mmo streamers played it. All of this to say, Crimson Desert’s success is not wild — and using Marathon as a metric is just the worst thing you could do because Pearl Abyss hasn’t been shitting themselves reputation-wise.
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
Well, Marathon is a supremely bad example as Bungie has been doing everything they can to make the people who have supported them throughout Destiny hate them.
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
This game has no business being as good as it is, like some aspects are real bad (game controls are very poorly thought out/implemented, story doesn’t exist, etc), some aspects are real good (the movement, the combat, the options, the exploration).
Idk, if you like Assassin’s Creed you should play this game. This feels like what every AC starting from Odyssey should have felt like.
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t call Pearl Abyss an unknown developer, at least not in the mmo scene.
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 1 week ago:
I also did a double take on that sentence, what an odd thing to say.
- Comment on Space weather fans be like 2 weeks ago:
Some clouds will dissipate, some will not. A storm will not dissipate because of an eclipse, let’s put it that way. It’d be sick as fuck, and probably freak everyone the fuck out, but it wouldn’t happen.
- Comment on It's over 2 weeks ago:
Future trolley
- Comment on This is your brain on drugs 2 weeks ago:
Salvia made me feel like I was my car door, and my tongue, and I was spinning like a coin.
I did not like that experience. I felt like I ran a mile afterwards.
- Comment on The Struggle 2 weeks ago:
Instant gratification. Why have thing later? Want thing now. Give thing now. Why wait for later?
- Comment on A lot less blue too... Hmmmm.... 2 weeks ago:
Thank you. I thought you were but I genuinely had to correct myself and think ‘But what if they’re not joking?’.
I’m tired.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you can point to any one root cause of racism.